If you are involved in a home business opportunity I assume you want to make money, to do so you need home-based business leads and the most sought-after leads are free leads. Most people wanting to work at home especially work at home mom’s are doing it part-time to earn extra money so they usually don’t have very much money to spend on getting leads to begin with.Of course if you have a big budget, paying for leads for a legitimate home based business such as MLM is the quickest way to get a work at home Internet business established. But, this article is about getting free leads for your Internet business to earn money online so let’s get on with it.These are the five most popular methods that I know of that are used to get free leads for a home-based business opportunity.* Blogs: Using the keyword(s) that you have chosen in your niche, search for other blogs that allow comments. If you leave comments that are beneficial to the blog post you may be allowed to leave a link to your blog.If you leave a comment like “great blog” or some other irrelevant comment you will most likely be deleted so make the comment good.* Article Marketing: This is a great way to get free leads, and there’s a few ways that you can approach this for maximum benefit. The concept is pretty simple and there are some great advantages in using it, one being that you don’t necessarily need a website to get these leads.Another big advantage is that the articles themselves can rank fast in your keyword niche in the search engines if they are published on authority domains resulting in free leads. The key is using what is called the author box or bio box.Here you can put in a link that will take your reader to your blog or squeeze page hopefully capturing their email address.* Forums: Find a forum in your niche and join it. You can easily find forums in a business opportunity by going to Google or any other search engine and typing in your niche keyword(s), the plus sign (+) and the word “forum”.Now the only reason to join a forum is to post a signature file with your web address so if the forum does not allow you to do so, don’t bother joining it. As I stated before when commenting on blogs, give comments or answers that are beneficial to the question being asked in the forum.* Social Media: Examples are Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc. If you have a small business using this method can get you a lot of exposure. Getting involved is easy; here are a few pointers to help.You need to find groups in popular categories on your niche topic and join them, and then start sending out friend requests to group. You should start a fan page on any topic of your choice where you can encourage interaction among the fans.As an entrepreneur you would be remiss in not taking advantage of this method to further your Internet home business.* Warm market: Three words “don’t do it”. I have a friend who is in the home-based travel business and after three months of his calling all his friends and relatives he had what we call “NFL”, No Friends Left.If you try to get your friends or relatives involved in your work at home business you will be making a big mistake. Even if you think you have the best home-based business idea, your friends will treat you as a “direct sales snake oil salesman” and will not be picking up the phone when they know it is you.Final word, if you use even one of the above methods (with the exception of your warm market) you will get the home-based business leads that you need and it won’t cost any more than your time.
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